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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the State of Minnesota’s lawsuit against major parties in the fossil-fuel industry may proceed in state court. Without comment, the Court denied the petition of the defendants ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute, and three Koch Industries entities to review lower-court decisions that remanded the case to state court.…
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FERTILE, MN—The Fair Meadow Nursing Home took up most of the conversation at Monday night’s Fertile City Council meeting. During public comments, a resident expressed concern about how the City Council has handled operation of the city-owned Fair Meadow Nursing Home since administrator Angie Leiting resigned under fire in June. Then, Kari Swanson and Dave…
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The Twin Valley City Council met for their first city council meeting of the year Monday night. One topic of discussion was the winter activities the city offers to residents. Twin Valley Mayor Mike Bolton tells us more about these activities. Bolton says that they got an update from their engineers regarding their water and…
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Listen back to the KKCQ Food for Though Program with Polk County Commissioner Joan Lee.
CROOKSTON, MN—A homeless shelter in Crookston is holding a dinner to raise money for buying a cargo van. Tom Anderson, board chairman of Care and Share, talks about the dinner, which is called “Open Hearts, Open Doors.” Care and Share in Crookston also operates a soup kitchen and food shelf. If you’d like tickets for…
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Listen back to the KRJB Kaleidoscope with Linda Houglum of Norman County Extension.
R&J News compiled our year in review, looking back on the stories that made the News with R&J News in 2023 with a month by month breakdown.
Hacks for a Happy New Year:–Get the power of a New Year’s Resolution on your side. “Contrary to widespread public opinion, a considerable proportion of New Year resolvers do succeed. You are 10 times more likely to change by making a New Year’s resolution compared to non-resolvers with the identical goals and comparable motivation to…
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